News Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account

[Admin]

Microsoft Paint gets an AI image generation tool with Cocreator. It uses text and visual prompts to formulate your desired images, but requires a Copilot+ PC. You also have to sign up for a Microsoft Account if you want to use it.

Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account : Read more

 

[peachpuff]

Microsoft account?

 

[Metal Messiah.]

Microsoft quietly added a new AI feature, called Cocreator, into its raster graphics editor included in every version of Windows since 1985.

Entirely new and quietly added ?

Well, this AI feature was mentioned before as well. Though, only some Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel had access to it though since last September, 23.

But the info on Cocreator was shared before as well.

Paint app update introducing Paint Cocreator begins rolling out to Windows Insiders

UPDATE 10/23: The update to the Paint app for Windows 11 that includes Paint Cocreator is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel (version 11.2309.20.0 or higher

blogs.windows.com

Microsoft Paint's DALL-E 3 integration is rolling out on Windows 11

Microsoft has finally rolled out the highly-anticipated Paint’s DALL-E integration to everyone on Windows 11. With DALL-E 3 integration, you can use Microsoft Paint to create AI-generated images using the power of OpenAI-‘s ChatGPT. This feature is available via a “Cocreator” button in Paint...

www.windowslatest.com

Few more links:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29...ai-dall-e-3-text-to-image-generator-available

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2339128/microsofts-new-new-cocreator-is-an-unexpected-treat.html

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-create-ai-art-in-microsoft-paint-with-cocreator

 

[usertests]

Microsoft will track and store your text-based prompts.

>do it locally with NPU
>still tracked and censored
Lame. Pass.

 

[TechyIT223]

Another crap AI tool for breakfast

 

[sadsteve]

Microsoft account login reqired = application not used.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

I will wait till copilot is officially supported on Nvidia GPUs.

 

[ThomasKinsley]

I remember when Microsoft wanted to kill Paint in 2017. Now they wish to convince users to sign into a MS Account to use all of its features. I'm positive that MS has lost their direction. As an ordinary consumer it feels like it would be easy to make a better product. Is it bad management or are they lost in the weeds of the day-to-day technical details?

 

[NeoMorpheus]

I miss the days when these corporations listened to their customers.

More and more bloat in the OS, since many wont be using it.

 

[vijosef]

Despite having telemetry "disabled", MS office click-to-run spams the SSD with terabytes of telemetry log files. You no more own your own computer, and no way I will allow MS to keep doing it.

 

[hannibal]

I am sure that next win12 will require top 40 ai power! The movement to that direction seems to be clear. The only unsure thing is, what year it will happen.

 

[ezst036]

, Microsoft still requires you to sign in with your Microsoft account and be connected to the internet “to ensure safe use of AI.” According to Microsoft’s Privacy Statement,

Of course, all of the Microsoft supporters that normally come out of the woodwork are absent here.

They'll tell you "Oh but a Microsoft account is only needed for when you activate Windows, on the first run, but it'll never ever be used again! You can even disable it!"

Microsoft has a disconnect with its greatest fans here. That Microsoft account is for everything, everywhere. It'll just take time for Microsoft to proliferate it.

There isn't any other way for Microsoft to do its tracking and metrics without you being logged in.

"Oh but you need to be logged into Twitter, or logged into the TomsHardware forums, so it's just the same!"

It's totally different. Entirely different. These are desktop applications and OS that have never in the history of desktop applications ever needed telemetry or a login to be used or to deliver advertisements to you. Logins have only been for security reasons at the beginning entry point and that is all.

 

[ezst036]

I miss the days when these corporations listened to their customers.

To be fair, Microsoft did just listen to their customers and yank the rug out from under "Recall". That was only just this week.